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False Flag 2

A heritage group’s plan to fly a large Confederate flag along Interstate 95 outside Richmond is drawing criticism from the head of the NAACP’s Virginia chapter.

The Virginia Flaggers plans to fly the 10-by-15-foot flag on a 50-foot pole just south of Richmond. It’s tentatively scheduled to go up Sept. 28 and will be visible from the northbound lanes of the interstate, although organizers haven’t said exactly where it will be located.

The group claims that this a benign reminder of an honorable lost cause. From farther down the page:

“Basically, the flag is being erected as a memorial to the memory and the honor of the Confederate soldiers who sacrificed, bled and died to defend Virginia from invasion,” Hathaway said.

One more time: When someone starts running on about the “Lost Cause,” ask him or her,

    “Just what, exactly, was the cause that was lost.”
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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    August 8, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    The failure of the US educational system to inform on history and the everlasting grinding grudge of southern grievance on display in the comments section. Inevitably, one expects summon to bring up that the war was really about Union tariffs on imported goods interfering with optimum profits from the sale of cotton to England.

     
  2. Frank

    August 8, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    As the saying goes, the North may have won the war, but the South won the peace.

    Imagine attending elementary school in Virginia in the 1950s, where 1619 was taught as the “Red Letter Year,” because of the first meeting of the first legislative body in the colonies (the House of Burgesses), the arrival of women, and the arrival of the first (to use the term of the times) Negro slaves.

    Red letter, indeed.

    The whole “Southern Heritage” thing is but a dodge to avoid dealing with the reality of chattel slavery, rape, and the lash.

    Talk to me nicely, and I shall stop mincing words.